Local Content in the Europeana Cloud Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme Sharing Cultural Heritage Online with LoCloud: workshop Digital Heritage, 1 st October, 2015 Granada, Spain
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Local Content in the Europeana Cloud
Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
Sharing Cultural Heritage Online with LoCloud: workshopDigital Heritage, 1st October, 2015
Granada, Spain
Pôle de la Mémoire Locale du Bourgeais (Bourg, France) CC-BY-NC-ND
Our journey
• Best practice network funded by the EU under the CIP ICT PSP programme
• 1st March 2013 to 29th February 2016
• 33 partners in 26 countries• Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway
• Project management: 2Culture Associates, UK
• Strong group of technical partners
• National and regional aggregation services, and individual content providers
Our partners work with large numbers of local museums, libraries, archives and independent collections with an enormous amount of interesting content which is increasingly available online.
Spanish football with Kubala as coach (between 1974 and 1983)from Pontevedra Public Library and Asturian Library, Public Domain
Network
• To add over 4 million digital resources from small and medium-sized cultural institutions to Europeana
• To make it easier for small/medium institutions to make good quality content available Increase the amount of local history and heritage resources available to Europeana users
• Enable more views of content relating to localities for education, tourism, creativity and more
Main project goals
Europeana
• A huge online database of information about cultural content held by European cultural heritage institutions
• A network of organisations and expertise• A catalyst for new services
http://www.europeana.eu
Statue of Apollo Curium – under repair, Cyprus Unversity of Technology
It can seem like heavy lifting
Project activities• Supporting cultural institutions in making their content
available to Europeana• Creating technical solutions suitable for smaller institutions• Exploring the potential of cloud-computing technologies• Creating metadata enrichment services• Providing support, guidance and training
Skaters CC-BY-NCJavni Zavod Republike Slovenije za
Varstvo Kulturne Dediscine
• Based on the open source Omeka system• Allows users to publish digital objects on-line in a few minutes• Scalable, user friendly, with OAI-PMH interface • Provides storage for metadata and content in various formats• Incorporates web traffic analytics• Cloud-based • Developed by PSNC
• LoCloud support portal includes– user and technical documentation– eLearning materials– Question-and-Answer service– Access to a ticket desk system– Videos!